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Filtering is based on categories (sections). As of Aug. 1, 2009, the categories (sections) of the Chronicle are not all terribly well defined. Some of them make more sense than others.

Filtering depends on knowing the category ID numbers:

3=Business

4=Education

5=Entertainment

6=Environment

7=Government

8=Missed Ticks

9=Neighborhoods

10=New Media Watch

11=Old Media Watch

24=Stopped. Watched

571=Meeting Watch

176=Opinion

There are two basic strategies: filtering in by specify exactly those categories you’d like to receive or filtering out by specifying that you’d like to receive everything except for some categories. Either way you filter, the syntax seems to require trailing commas for single items … for reasons that are not entirely clear to our web team.

Filtering In

The syntax for creating a feed that selects just the categories you want, where x, y, z, w, correspond to numbers of categories you want, is this:

MICATS (Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands) is reporting that two of its protesters have been arrested for locking their necks with bicycle U-locks to pipeline construction trucks being used for the Enbridge Line 6B pipeline expansion. [Source]

In a roundup of the lineup for the Aug. 5, 2014 primary elections, we overstated by one year Ward 5 councilmember Chuck Warpehoski’s length of service as a council representative on the city’s environmental commission. He served in that capacity during his first year on the council. We note the error here and have corrected the original article.